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Boeing delivers second 787, 747-8

Boeing delivered the second 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 Freighter to respective launch customers All Nippon Airways and Cargolux on Thursday.

“Cargolux flew their second 747-8 Freighter directly to Luxembourg a short time afterward, while ANA will fly away with their second 787 Dreamliner on Saturday,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes marketing chief Randy Tinseth wrote on his blog.

Here are the two airplanes together in Everett.

The second Boeing 787 Dreamliner for launch customer All Nippon Airways (right, front) sits beside the second 747-8 Freighter for launch customer Cargolux before delivery on Oct. 13, 2011 in Everett. (Boeing)

Meanwhile, Boeing started function and reliability certification testing on Wednesday for the 747-8 Intercontinental, which is the passenger version of Boeing’s largest airliner, Tinseth reported. Function and reliability is one of the last phases of flight testing before certification and requires showing that the airplane, its components and equipment are reliable and function properly in simulated airline operation.

“The Intercontinental has completed more than 75 percent of the flight testing required to achieve its Amended Type Certification,” Tinseth wrote.

Boeing expects to deliver one Intercontinental to a private customer this year and the first one to an airline, Lufthansa, next spring.

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